Victim Services of Perth and Huron Merge

by Bob Montgomery

Effective May 1st Victim Services of Perth County have merged with Huron County Victim Services.

Executive Director Deborah Logue explains Perth Victim Services had been aligned with Grey and Bruce, so what was previously Grey, Bruce, Perth is now Grey Bruce and Huron Perth is a separate service. Logue says the Grey, Bruce, Perth configuration covered too much area for them to provide the level of service they felt was necessary. Logue also points out, Huron and Perth already share services with the school board, the health unit and addiction and mental health services among others so it makes sense to merge Huron and Perth Victim Services.

The merger will provide better service for clients. “It also helps staffing resources and volunteers to be training in person. When you're covering a huge geographical area it's difficult to have people in person which means you don't build the relationships you'd like to, but now that it's just Huron and Perth they can get together more often and they have more training opportunities.”

The merger came into effect at the beginning of May but the contact information doesn't change, so if someone wants to call they can still call the Huron number and if they want to call Bruce Grey they can continue to call that number. She adds, even if people call the wrong number they will be referred to the number they were looking for. More information will be available at the Victim Service Huron Perth website shortly.